Color spinner toy



June 19, 1951- p. ORNBOSTEL 2,557,348

COLOR\ SPINNER TOY Filed April 8, 1946 .EJVE'HZUF LL 0 Y0 HOD/V805 TEL.

Patented June 19, 1951 001.03. SPINNER TOY Lloyd Hornbostel, Beloit,Wis., assignor to Dorothy Rogers Hornbostel, Beloit, Wis.

Application April 8, 1946, Serial No. 660,575

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a toy or amusement device including a rotatingdisk adapted to receive water colors from a paint brush touched thereonto produce pleasing and amusin rings of color. Specifically, theinvention deals with a toy having an electric motor driven disk in aprotecting pan for receiving colors to produce eye appealing effectswhereby the pan prevents splattering of colors on adjacent objects.

The toy of this invention includes a mounting base carrying an electricmotor. The motor in turn has a casing supporting the bottom of a pan.This pan is provided with an upstanding peripheral wall. The shaft ofthe motor projects through the base of the pan and carries a disksupporting member in the pan. A disk is horizontally mounted on thesupporting member :around a threaded spindle portion and a nut isthreaded on the spindle against the disk to affix the disk on thesupporting member for co-rotation with the shaft. The disk has a topsurface receptive to colors such as water colors or the like. The diskis thereby replaceably attached to the shaft in the pan and carried at alevel above the bottom of the pan and beneath the top of the wall of thepan. The disk can be composed of disposable material such as heavy paperor cardboard, or can be made of more permanent washable material such asplastic. The motor drives the disk at speeds around 1700 R. P. M. andtouching a paint brush containin water colors against the rotating diskwill immediately produce a ring of color on the disk. If the disk istouched on three or four radially spaced points with a paint brushcontaining different water colors, three or four rings of these colorswill be produced and if the disk is then touched near its center withplain water or dilute water color, a wash effect will be obtained by theaction of centrifugal force in spinning the more fluid water or dilutecolor outwardly over the previously applied rings toward the peripheryof the disk. Amusing and pleasing rainbow color effects are obtained.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention the motor is mounted on thebase through the media of a U-shaped bracket and the motor shaft extendsbeneath the motor casing into the open an amusement device or toyenabling a child or unskilled operator-to obtain eye appealing coloreffects on a rotating member.

A further object of the invention is to provide a toy spinner device forreceiving colors to produce eye appealing color combinations and ef--fects.

A still further object of the invention is t provide a color spinner toyincluding an electric motor driven disk for receiving water colorsthereon to produce pleasing color efiects.

A specific object .of the invention is to provide a color spinner toyhaving an electric motor driven replaceable disk in a protecting pan andadapted to receive water colors and the like thereon for producingrainbow color effects without splatterin the operator or adjoiningobjects.

Other and further objects of the invention will be apparent to thoseskilled in the art by the following detailed description of the annexedsheet of drawings which, by way of preferred example, illustrates oneembodiment of the invention. 7

On the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the color spinner toy of this invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view with parts.

broken away to show underlying parts of the color spinner toy.

Figure 3 is .a plan view of a replaceable disk for the toy of thisinvention.

As shown on the drawings:

A color spinner toy in shown in Figs. 1 and 2 includes a mounting baseII having a U-shaped bracket [2 secured to the axial center, of the topface thereof. Thus the bracket l2 has a bottom horizontal leg l2areceiving a bolt [3 therethrough to attach the bracket to the base. Thebracket has a vertical upstanding web l2b and a top leg I2c overlyingthe leg [2a in spaced relation. An electric motor casing [4 has a flatbottom face Ma resting on the top leg I20 of the bracket I2 and securedthereto by means of screws I 5. The motor casing has a flat top wall Mbreceiving the base 5a of a pan l6 thereon. Screws ll secure the pan I6to the motor casin M. The pan l6 has an upstanding peripheral wall [6btherearound and this wall is preferably of cylindrical configuration.

The motor in the casing has an armature driven shaft l8 projectingbeyond both end faces Ma and Mb of the casing. The lower end of theshaft extends through the leg I20 of the bracket into the space betweenthe legs of the bracket and a knurled knob 19 is secured thereon 3 inthis space. A set screw is provided on the knob 19 to lock the knob tothe shaft.

The top end of the shaft I8 projects through the base l6a of the pan l6and receives a support member 2| thereon. The support member is affixedto the shaft by means of a set screw 22. The support member has a topface 2la positioned at a level above the base I6a of the pan but beneaththe top of the wall [6b of the pan. A threaded spindle portion 23, whichcan be integral with the shaft I8, projects above this supporting face2la of the support member and is coaxial with the shaft IS.

A disk 24 composed of self-supporting paper or cardboard, plastic or thelike, has a central aperture 24a therethrough adapted to receive thespindle 23 therein. The disk 24 is bottomed on the support surface 2laof the support member 2| and a knurled nut 25 is threaded on the spindle23 to thrust against the disk 24 for clamping disk between the nut andsurface Ziuof the support member 2| for co-rotation with the shaft I8.The disk is thereby held at a level in the pan it above the base Iliathereof but below the top of the peripheral wall l6b. The disk isreadily replaced by removal of the nut 25 from the spindle 23.

In mounting a disk 24 for co-rotation with the shaft in the pan [6 or inremoving a disk 24 from the shaft and pan the knob is on the shaft ispreferably grasped to prevent rotation of the shaft so that the nut 25can be readily rotated on and off the spindle 23.

The electric motor in the casing 14 is energized through an electricwire 26 and rotates the shaft I8 at speeds around 1700 R. P. M. At thesespeeds the disk 24 is subjected to sufficient force so that even arelatively limp sheet of paper will tend to maintain a single horizontalplane.

If the rotating disk 24 is touched even lightly with a water color ladenpaint brush such as 21, ring such as 28, 29 and 30 of color will beimmediately formed on the top face of the disk. This top face of thedisk is receptive to water colors and the like and is adapted to becolored thereby. For example, if diiferent'colors on the paint brush 2'!are successively applied to the disk, the rings 28, 29 and 39 will beformed in different colors, and if a wash is then applied toward therotating center of the disk this wash will be flung outward bycentrifugal force over the differently colored rings 28, 29 and 30 toprovide a rainbow effect and blending of the different colors of therings. The wash can be applied by depositing water from the brush 2!onto the disk near the rotating center thereof. Alternately, of course,the wash can be colored and sufficiently fluid to travel outwardly bycentrifugal force over the top face of the 'disk. Many pleasing andamusing color effects and combinations can be obtained.

The upstanding wall it?) of the pan l6 catches any colors that are flunoff of the disk and prevents splattering of adjacent objects.

From the above description it will be appreciated that I have provided aspinner toy that will easily produce eye appealing and amusing colorcombinations and effects without requiring any skill so that even ayoung child can operate and be amused with the toy.

It will, of course, be understood that various details of constructionmay be varied through a Wide range Without departing from the principlesof this invention and it is, therefore, not the purpose to limit thepatent granted hereon otherwise than necessitated by the scope of theappended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A color spinner toy comprising a base, a bracket having a bottom legsecured on top of said base, a vertical leg extending from the bottomleg and a top leg overlying the bottom leg in spaced relation therefrom,a motor casing secured on top of said top leg of the bracket, a pansecured on top of said motor casing, said pan having an upstandingperipheral wall therearound, a motor shaft projecting from said casinginto said pan and into the space between the top and bottom legs of thebracket, a knob secured on said shaft in the space between said legs ofthe bracket, and disk attachment means secured on said shaft in said panfor releasably carrying a disk in the pan to rotate with the shaft, andsaid'knob in the space between the legs of the bracket beingconveniently accessible for holding the shaft against rotation whenreplacing a disk on the shaft in the pan.

2. An amusement device for producing pleasing color effects whichcomprises a base, a bracket having a bottom leg secured on top of saidbase, a vertical leg extending from the bottom leg and a top legoverlying the bottom leg in spaced relation therefrom, a motor casingsecured to the top leg of the bracket, a pan secured on top of saidmotor casing, said pan having an upstanding peripheral wall therearound,a motor shaft projecting from said casing into said pan, disk attachingmeans secured on said shaft in said pan for releasably carrying a diskin the pan to rotate with the shaft, and means for holding the shaftagainst rotation while replacing a disk on the shaft in the pan, theupper surface of said disk being exposed for the selective applicationof colors from a brush or the like thereto.

LLOYD HORNBOSTEL.

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